SurveyLA Looks to the Past to Preserve Los Angeles' Future

Posted on:January 9th, 2009bySarah Heffern

The Los Angeles Conservancy, one of our local partners in Southern California, has undertaken is working with the City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources on an epic endeavor, a project known as SurveyLA, which will look at all of the historic resources in the city. This effort, the largest such initiative in the nation, is:

As part of the project, the Conservancy has prepared three videos to explain the project and some of the prominient site being surveyed. Architects, historians and preservation experts -- including the National Trust for Historic Preservation's own Anthea Hartig, director of our Western Office -- share stories about the cultural legacy of the architecture of Los Angeles.

Updated to reflect that the City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources is the lead on SurveyLA, not the Los Angeles Conservancy.

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Sarah Heffern is the social media strategist for the National Trust’s Public Affairs team. While she embraces all things online and pixel-centric, she’s also a hard-core building hugger, having fallen for preservation in a fifth grade “Built Environment” class. Follow her on Twitter at @smheffern.

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